SEASON 20th-ish

Mercury Fur

Written by Philip Ridley
Direction by Cat Elrod

June 24 - July 23

Mercury Fur is set in a post-apocalyptic world, where gang violence and drugs - in the form of hallucinogenic butterflies - terrorize the community. The protagonists are a gang of youths surviving by their wits. They deal drugs, selling them to their addicted customers from burnt-out apartments and abandoned buildings. Their main source of income, however, is holding parties for wealthy clients in which their wildest, most amoral fantasies are brought to life. The play centers on a party which revolves around the sadistic murder of a child, enacted according to the whims of a guest. The gang ultimately has to face the question of how far they are willing to go to save the people they love.